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Ethan William Cox

3×3 · top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022COXE01

Ethan William Cox has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.99, set at Georgia Championship 2026, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,701st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since July 2022, he has put 686 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.91 in July 2022 to 8.99, a 73% improvement. Ethan has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.99
signature single · Georgia Championship 2026
686
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.9910.57
top 4.8%2,701 / 59,724
2×22.113.83
top 5.5%2,199 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.036.36
top 7.8%1,998 / 28,708
Clock6.597.89
top 9.5%728 / 8,927
Skewb3.906.52
top 10.2%1,564 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed17.5123.83
top 13.8%1,799 / 15,683
4×442.5952.13
top 15.2%2,294 / 19,072
5×51:29.961:32.23
top 27.3%2,132 / 9,401
Megaminx1:38.571:55.95
top 33.7%2,392 / 7,841
7×74:57.745:12.34
top 49.9%1,454 / 3,184
6×63:31.933:58.61
top 55.4%2,094 / 4,196
Square-153.09—
early days — 2 solves5,233 / 6,743

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 33.91Warwick Cube Day 2023: 13.80CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 15.10Rocky Top 2023: 12.82TN Speedsolving Winter 2024: 13.27Volunteer State Cubing 2024: 12.79Moonbow Mega Kentucky 2024: 12.77Concord Summer 2024: 12.99Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.33CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 9.31Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 12.20See Georgia: Cloudland Canyon A 2025: 11.77CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 11.20Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.37Omnicon & Cubes TN 2025: 10.19Georgia Championship 2026: 8.99Scenic City Spring TN 2026: 12.20Cube Against Cancer Franklin 2026: 10.48Cookeville Cube Challenge 2026: 10.25Scenic City Summer TN 2026: 9.038.9933.9129 Jul 20228 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

  • MJ Thomas — met in 117 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
  • Katie Hull — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Clay Moore — met in 100 rounds, finished ahead 31 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.